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General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
varied shifts; depending on department needs including weekends and holidays
Posted Date
10/27/2024
Salary Range: $35.2 - 35.2 Hourly
Employment Type
6 - Staff: Per Diem
Duration
Per Diem
Job #
20060

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

You bring more than skill, knowledge, and expertise to your role as an allied health professional. You bring a deep passion for improving the lives of everyone around you. At UCLA Health, we’re committed to fostering a working environment where you are supported and empowered to be your best. You’ll love it here! 

 

Under direct supervision of a registered pharmacist, when you are assigned to an inpatient practice area, you will perform those repetitive and manipulative activities which primarily consist of drug distribution duties, pre-packaging, maintaining the inventory in the Pyxis medstations (filling the medstation daily, checking for outdates), IV and chemotherapy sterile compounding, record keeping (refrigerator temperature logs and hood cleaning), billing, housekeeping and security functions.

 

UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and dozens of primary care practices, specialty practices, urgent care centers and other ancillary locations throughout metro Los Angeles as well as the David Geffen School of Medicine. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles’ trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If you’re looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, UCan at UCLA Health.

 

Job Qualifications

 

  1. Currently enrolled in a Pharm D. Program – Required.
  2. CA Pharmacy Intern license – Required.
  3. 2 years of inpatient pharmacy experience - Highly preferred.
  4. Ability to accurately perform pharmaceutical calculations.
  5. Knowledge of pharmaceutical generic and trade names and their dosage forms, and the ability to cross-reference the most common drugs from memory.
  6. Knowledge of medical terminology and pharmaceutical abbreviations.
  7. Skill in preparing intravenous solutions using aseptic technique.
  8. Ability to work independently and follow-through on assignments with minimal supervision.
  9. Skill in computer order entry of medication orders as well as other related computer entry tasks and computer report generation.
  10. Telephone and verbal skills required to communicate clearly and effectively with pharmacists, nurses, physicians and other allied health professionals.
  11. Ability to compound chemotherapy solution utilizing departmental guidelines for the preparation/distribution of cytotoxic agents.
  12. Ability to lift 25 lbs and push 50 lbs

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.